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Spirituality
Spiritual revelations do not arrive from thinking long & hard about Divinity. They come through silencing our thoughts, moving our ego out of the way, and opening up to the quiet, mysterious, spiritual realm that is always here with us. The world of soul is here and now, superimposed and woven through the world of the five sense. It doesn't take belief. It is Reality itself. You must only learn to see beyond the veils.
“There is another world, but it is in this one."
–W.B. Yeats
Spirituality
Spiritual revelations do not arrive from thinking long & hard about Divinity. They come through silencing our thoughts, moving our ego out of the way, and opening up to the quiet, mysterious, spiritual realm that is always here with us. The world of soul is here and now, superimposed and woven through the world of the five sense. It doesn't take belief. It is Reality itself. You must only learn to see beyond the veils.
“There is another world, but it is in this one."
–W.B. Yeats
Spirituality
Spiritual revelations do not arrive from thinking long & hard about Divinity. They come through silencing our thoughts, moving our ego out of the way, and opening up to the quiet, mysterious, spiritual realm that is always here with us. The world of soul is here and now, superimposed and woven through the world of the five sense. It doesn't take belief. It is Reality itself. You must only learn to see beyond the veils.
“There is another world, but it is in this one."
–W.B. Yeats
Healing
Healing occurs in the mind, heart, spirit, and body. Any system of self-improvement that does not address all of these essential components of the human being is lacking. I believe this so strongly I’ll repeat it: Any attempt to heal only one aspect of yourself without addressing the others, will ultimately lead to imbalance and unhappiness.
Soar
RETURN TO SOUL, truth, PEACE OF MIND, and THE QUIET POWER THAT GIVES RISE
TO flight
I'm happy you're here.
Personal evolution begins not with striving, but with remembering.
A return inward to the source of deep knowing, where what is true and enduring is recognized, and pure awareness opens to perceive inner and outer realities without illusion.
When such seeing is embodied, life refines itself in ways we once thought impossible.
With greater awareness comes deeper responsibility. And at times, this weight of consciousness can feel heavy—but a current of joy runs beneath it like a river.
The joy of clarity. Of moving through life in harmony with destruction and creation. Of witnessing the rise and fall of selves and worlds without turning away. Of understanding that even heaviness carries its own holy grace—and that when we rest inside that gravity, the struggle to escape death, loss, and paradox falls away, along with the efforts to extract meaning from an unknowable mystery. And in yielding to that current, we are carried—and we rise.
Every return to soul transforms more than just the one who returns. As each of us lives in truer accord with our nature, we become more radiant and nourishing to the world around us. Simply by being, we contribute more—to our families, our communities, the Earth, and the greater human story.
I’m doing it for myself, breath by breath, and I’d love to help you arrive, too.
Recognition: The Compassion of St Francis, by Michael Divine
Ocean Mary, by Daniel Mirante
SOAR Offerings
Each integrative offering has been created with deep care and is shaped by both formal training and wisdom developed over seventeen years of counseling, spiritual guidance, and ceremonial healing with dedicated clients—alongside a lifetime of my own cultivation practice.
You're welcome to explore the offerings below, or scroll beyond them to read the About Me and Background sections on this page.
At this time, I am not accepting new private clients. However, Sound Therapist Jessica Foutz and I are available to work with groups seeking shamanic/hapé ceremonies and medicinal sound healings. If you’d like to be notified when my private schedule opens, please reach out, and I’ll be in touch when space becomes available.
I’m no stranger to transformation.
My life has unfolded as a series of deaths and re-births.
I love what the Sufi saint and poet Rabia said:
“I died a thousand times before I died.”
Yes. Me too. Sometimes at the cellular level.
Other times, an old belief loosened its grip —
a way of seeing too narrow for what came next.
Each shedding left behind a deeper silence
and within that stillness, the medicine of emptiness.
This devotion to paradox is my practice:
Honoring fullness and nothingness
Levity and gravitas
The terror of non-meaning,
and the tender awe that redeems it.
Do I have it all figured out? Of course not. But I do know this:
if you feel called to live so truthfully that each moment becomes a poem, a prayer, or an offering,
I would be honored to bear witness to your unfurling.
Shamanic Background
I come from a hard-working family in Chicago, though it’s been a long time since I called the Midwest home. Over the years, I’ve lived coast to coast across the U.S., as well as in Europe and Morocco. I’ve traveled to more than forty countries, sometimes to work with spiritual teachers and indigenous leaders, other times to hike through enchanted forests or leap through waterfalls — and always to experience the world from new and humbling perspectives.
I've formally studied at New York University, in Aix-en-Provence, France, and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where I received my graduate degree. After graduation, I was invited to teach in the UNLV Honors College, where I taught multidisciplinary seminars for much of my fourteen years as a professor, through the fall of 2024. You can learn more about that role here.
I am also a writer, currently working on a four-book speculative fiction series. My literary site can be found here.
My background as a spiritual guide, counselor, and healer has evolved through decades of intensive shamanic work and dedicated study with intuitive therapists, spiritual teachers, and indigenous medicine carriers who have generously shared their wisdom, lineages, and transmissions with me. I am eternally grateful for the 14-year relationship I shared with my primary teacher and curandero, who profoundly shaped the way I hold space for clients. He places integrity, alignment, and love at the center of every healing, and his influence remains with me always. Out of respect for his valued privacy, I'll keep him unnamed here, but I could not speak of my path without honoring the role he played.
I am also indebted to the mystic and teacher Pierre Lory, with whom I had the honor of spending one-on-one time with while in France. It was through him that my innermost spiritual heart began to awaken. He also, perhaps unknowingly, connected me with an array of bird spirits who continue to accompany and support the healing work I do with clients today. Dr. Lory is now Chair of Muslim Mysticism & Religious Sciences at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. However when we met, he was teaching in Aix-en-Provence, where he lived with his gracious wife — a woman whose warmth and kindness I still remember with deep fondness.
I also give great thanks to the Yawanawá family of Amazonian Brazil for sharing their pure, unadulterated Earth medicines with me. My relationship with these sacred plants would not be as rooted — or as respectful — had I not made multiple pilgrimages to Brazil to learn directly from the humble and respected Yawa pajé Peû, the wise and loving Chief Biraci, and Putanny: Biraci's wife, the first female Yawa medicine carrier, and my favorite person to dance with beside the sacred fire.
All three paintings by Lobsang Melendez Ahuanari
The winters & springs I spent at the Mount Adams Buddhist Temple and Druid Sanctuary in Washington State remain dear to my soul. The clean energy of the grounds and temple, the sweetness of the alpacas on the farm, Thay Kozen's warmth & joy, Kirk's humor & humanity, and the quiet power of the volcanic mountain all combined to form a pristine container in which inner journeying was both effortless and deeply supported.
I've also had the privilege of learning from the greatly-understated Dr. John Beaulieu, a psychologist and pioneering sound therapist based in upstate New York. And I am thankful for Dr. Marta Meana, a clinical psychologist, researcher (and my former boss!) whose example taught me invaluable lessons in leadership and inter-personal dynamics. My gratitude extends to Dr. Linda Cunningham for training me in Jungian Sandplay Therapy for Adults, a fascinating modality in which the client's own unconscious psyche serves as the primary healer.
Most recently, I returned to my Indo-European roots and immersed myself in the energies and shamanic traditions of that ancestral landscape. The training I received in Europe not only reconnected me to the power of my blood lineage, but also reawakened an archetypical aspect of my identity I hadn't been consciously nourishing.
And finally, this acknowledgment would not be complete without honoring the two beautiful beings I share a home with: the enlightened fur-guru, Samantha, and my favorite human in the world — my sweet, generous, devoted partner; once a monk, now an entrepreneur, and always my Beloved. Our relationship is a sacred, revelatory, living ceremony... and the most meaningful spiritual practice I’ve ever known.
A Note on My Guidance Style
Although transformation can involve radical intensities, peak experiences, and exotic practices, it doesn't need to. In fact, deep inner change is often quite subtle, spacious, and ordinary. That's generally the approach I take with clients, as I've found it creates greater psychological safety and allows for a more sophisticated refinement of what is already unfolding. It also helps prevent the common pitfalls of chasing novelty or becoming lost in new techniques, rather than honoring the powerful discipline of simplicity.
Thank you for taking the time to explore my site. It would bring me great happiness to support you along your journey.
"We are all just walking each other home."
Ram Dass
A gentle reminder: at this time, I'm not accepting new clients. However, Jessica Foutz and I are available to work with groups seeking shamanic/hapé ceremonies and medicinal sound healings. Reach out for more information using the form below.
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